Please do not submit photos with minifigures/elements which cannot be fully seen. E.g. peaking in from the side or from the waist up. If they were to be added to the banner, whatever part(s) aren't visible would simply look cut off in the banner.

No lighting techniques or harsh shadows

Please photograph your minfigure(s) in consistent lighting.

The minfigure(s) must isolated against a neutral coloured background

The background will need to be manually removed and this is much easier if it contrasts with the minifgure and is a constant colour. You may however, remove the background yourself, but be sure to save the image as a 32bit PNG file to ensure it retains its transparency.

No watermarks, logos, signatures or other branding

Please ensure your photos are free from visual distractions.

No Background Spill

“Spill” is the term used in film and photography when a background colour reflects onto a foreground element. For example: a minifigure photographed against a blue background has traces of blue along its boundary.

No flash highlights

These are when the flash reflects off the minifigure causing white highlights or shines.

Nothing too crude or offensive!

Keep your minifigure’s anitcs clever and tactful.

Our decision is final

We decide which minifigures will appear in the skin and how they will be arranged.

Acknowledgement

Everybody who contributes minifigure photography will receive an acknowledgement in Announcement Thread when the skin is complete.

Upon request additional information can be included such your website, Deviant Art account, Facebook Page or other contact details.

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Hello Phes, not sure if I can help in this pooling, but I thought I might share some of the most Pirate related images, that I had taken in the past. If past images are not acceptable, I will find time to take some new ones, whenever possible. For your consideration.

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Hello Phes, not sure if I can help in this pooling, but I thought I might share some of the most Pirate related images, that I had taken in the past. If past images are not acceptable, I will find time to take some new ones, whenever possible. For your consideration.

Thank you, your photography is very good! The only problem is sometimes your watermark overlaps onto the minifigure, but there is still plenty of usable material in the photos.

How about something like this ? Or is that too much rock ?

Be interesting to see if that fits within the confines of banner height, but I can certainly play round with it.

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Seems a little haphazard, but ok. I'll see what I can do to contribute in time as I would enjoy having a small part in this. As for theme focus, I alaways figured that was up for interpretation (particurally as Legos are all about imagination). Perhaps I missed something but, the characteristics of the earlier themes were not idiosyncratic to the Caribbean. Generally European to be sure, but that would certainly have warranted for contact with middle eastern or Asian people. To further my point, the islanders are distinctly more like Polynesian cultures than those of the West Indies. As long as you have the option open for custom mini-figures, it seems hypocritical to exclude those cultures one could reasonably imagine their generally European pirates/sailors coming into contact with. For my own part my limited custom work does not even include non-English seamen, so I have little steak in a change, I simply don't understand the policy.

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It's actually very simple. Mister Phes is in charge of designing the Pirate forum graphics, so all choices/decisions related to this task are for him to make. So if he wants to focus on the Caribbean that's his call. That doesn't mean you don't bring valid arguments, but they are fit better in another forum discussion.

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The idea is to have the banner represent each of the official LEGO Pirate Sub-themes. The problem without imposing restrictions is some people take too many liberties and go way off course, then we get too much of what we don't want.

We've already given plenty of leeway by allowing Dutch, Portuguese, East India Trading Company, Colonisation of Central America, undead pirates and the Mesoamerican Civilisations, but there has to be line drawn somewhere.